Search Results for: U.S. economy
Dollar holds steady, takes breather after rally
July 8th, 2014
The dollar held steady versus a basket of major currencies on Tuesday, having retreated from the previous day’s near-two-week high, giving the euro a chance to get over an unexpected slump in German industrial output. The dollar index was ...
Dollar Falls Most in a Week Versus Yen after Fed Rate report
July 8th, 2014
The dollar fell the most in more than a week against the yen as investors gauge the timing of Federal Reserve interest-rate increases after reports showing a strengthening jobs market. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rose earlier after Goldman ...
Central Banks Testing Limits of Monetary Policy
July 8th, 2014
The world’s major central banks are returning to a more opaque and artful approach to policymaking, ending a crisis-era experiment with explicit promises that they found risked their credibility and did not substitute for action. From Washington to London ...
Technical Analysis Gold – Indecision Resurfaces Under $1320
July 8th, 2014
Technical Analysis Gold for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 After pushing higher to a three month high above $1330 last week, gold has now just eased a little lower back to below $1320 and is showing more signs of indecision again ...
Australia 200 – Not Getting ‘Carried Away’ Above 5500
July 8th, 2014
Australia 200 for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 So will the Australia 200 Index be able to maintain its break through the key resistance level at 5500 having enjoyed a solid week last week? It reversed a little yesterday after ...
Technical Analysis AUD/USD – Resistance at 0.9425 Looms Large Again
July 8th, 2014
Technical Analysis AUD/USD for Tuesday, July 8, 2014 To start this week the Australian dollar is slowly trying to edge higher and regain some of the lost ground from late last week. The Australian dollar enjoyed a solid surge ...
Gold Extends Drop From 3-Month High as Dollar Strengthens
July 7th, 2014
Gold extended a decline from a three-month high as the outlook for higher borrowing costs in the U.S. strengthened the dollar. Silver also dropped. Gold ended a 12-year rally last year on expectations the Federal Reserve would reduce stimulus ...
Bond Anxiety in $1.6 Trillion Repo Market as Failures Soar
July 7th, 2014
In the relative calm that is the market for U.S. Treasuries, a sense of unease over a vital cog in the financial system’s plumbing is beginning to rise. The Federal Reserve’s bond purchases combined with demand from banks to ...
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper wins bitcoin auction
July 3rd, 2014
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Tim Draper is rolling in bitcoins after winning a U.S. government auction Monday. He bought 29,656 bitcoins — a new form of digital currency — from a trove that the government seized in a raid ...
Ghana’s First Hedge Fund Planned by Ex-Exchange Regulator
June 26th, 2014
Tikowrie Capital Ltd., a Ghanaian money manager started by a former regulator, plans to establish the West African country’s first hedge fund. “The appetite of investors in the country has grown over the years,” Tikowrie Executive Director Maxwell Gidi ...
